STAMFORD -- A Greenwich Democrat hoping to run for governor on a judicial reform plank was thrown into court lockup Thursday after allegedly creating a disturbance in the Superior Court's library.

According to State Police, troopers were called to the court around 3:21 p.m. where they found Lisa Whitnum-Baker, 53 of Greenwich, being held in the court lockup. After speaking with all the parties involved, police say they arrested Whitnum and charged her with breach of peace.

Whitnum, who goes by Lee Whitnum, responded to a call for comment by email, stating, "I am filing with the claims commission to sue the state of Connecticut." She did not elaborate on what happened.

Whitnum, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2008 and the U.S. Senate in 2010 and 2012, announced her candidacy for Governor on her website in March.

"My name is Lee Whitnum, and I'm committed to cleaning up the judiciary in Connecticut," the website reads. Her primary concern is how judges are confirmed and disciplined and wants to give average people the ability to fire judges.

The Greenwich resident's experience with the Connecticut judicial system have not been very positive, as they include some dust ups on the criminal side in which she was charged with harassment, trespassing and disorderly conduct in 2013. These cases are still listed as pending on the State Judiciary's website, though she has said the charges were dropped. According to previous reports, the harassment and trespassing were related to a visit she made to the judge overseeing her divorce proceedings.

She's also filed lawsuits against the Town of Greenwich, for renting out Town Hall for a religious event (a bar mitzvah), a blogger for defamation, a real estate agent, the probate court, and a slander allegation against Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. The governonr, after winning the court battle, proceeded to win a court order against Whitnum requiring her to show cause in future legal action.

She was also sued by People's Bank in 2013 for missing a payment on a loan. She fought the suit and lost after arguing she was up to date and the People's Bank attorney was "predatory," contentions a judge trial referee said were not true.

The Judicial Marshal Services Incident report from the situation at the Stamford courthouse this week said Whitnum's problems stemmed from an earlier disagreement with another patron over papers stacked in front of a printer as well as concerns by the law librarian that Whitnum had entered her office without permission to get paper for the printer. That day, Whitnum left when asked to by marshals.

The marshals service said that after the first incident, the librarian had planned to tell Whitnum that she would lose library privileges for three days if she returned and behaved as she had a few days before, and had requested that marshals be with her. When Whitnum enterned the courthouse on Thursday, the marshals and the librarian were alerted, and were ready for her. Soon after Whitnum got to the library, another argument with the same patron from the previous day, and more marshals responded to the library. Things escalated from there, according to the marshals.

She began screaming that she wasn't being treated fairly, the report said, and that she was being treated like a criminal, and at this point the librarian told her she was banned for three days for her behavior.

Marshals asked Whitnum to leave and she started to, but then she stopped to yell at the librarian. When a marshal tried to take her arm to guide her out, she allegedly tried to bite him on the hand and arm. After a struggle in the library, she was cuffed and brought down to the lockup, according to the marshals, where she asked to be let go, saying that she "doesn't need this right now."

State Police offered a shorter more concise version of the event. Whitnum was being verbally disruptive in the court's library, but when asked to calm down, she continued to be disruptive, prompting a call to the Judicial Marshals, the state police reported. Whitnum refused to leave when the marshals asked her to vacate the library, police said. Failing to follow their request, marshals attempted to escort her from the library and that's when the library staff and marshals claim Whitnum tried to bite a marshal, resulting in their putting her in the basement lockup.